[linux-lvm] Does LVM have any multipath failover capabilities?

Chandra Seetharaman sekharan at us.ibm.com
Tue Sep 1 23:34:27 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:27 -0600, Chris Worley wrote:
> For example, two iSCSI drives are actually the same drive provided via
> two different subnets: if one of the drives becomes unresponsive, I
> need LVM to seamlessly failover to the other one.
> 
> Otherwise, what's the right way to handle this?

Build lvm on top of a multipathed device (which comprises of the two
paths), with a priority callout that gives higher priority to one path
than the other.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
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